The heavens above: a popular handbook of astronomy (1882)
Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908 · New York, Chicago, Potter, Ainsworth, & Co. · leaf 392
t it would take light over sixteen years to reachus from Sirius, about eighteen years to reach us from Vega,about twenty-five years from Arcturus, and over forty yearsfrom the Pole-Star. In many instances it is believed thatit would take the light of stars hundreds of years to makethe journey to… … Fig. 420. year, and from age to age; and hence they have comeuniversally to be denominated as fixed. It is, however, nowwell known that the stars, instead of being really stationary,are moving at the rate of many miles a second; but theirdistance is so enormous, that, in the majority of cases,…
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